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Pool Quotes

There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water.

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 1. Nature is a place of sanctuary for carefree boys in search peace and escape, and the American dream. Only they grow up to be weary tramps.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

– Georg Trakl

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players’ pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

– John Terry

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

– Jill Scott

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

– Joan Didion

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

– James Garner

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

– Ian Thorpe

I have to go… drop some kids in the pool.

– Jessica Simpson

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

– Jim Caviezel

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

– Joan Didion

I don’t know what I’m really good at. I’m really good at sittin’ by the pool. I have to work at that. I’m really bad at auditioning.

– Alex O’Loughlin

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

– Barkhad Abdi

If someone throws you in a pool and you can’t swim, you’re going to struggle.

– Bernard Sumner

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

– Barbara Castle

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that’s an area we’ve got to keep pressing on.

– Austan Goolsbee

I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum’s hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

– Adam Peaty

Every now and then, you’ll get one of those days when you’re feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you’ll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.

– Aimee Willmott

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

– Adam Richman

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

– Albert Shanker

When I’m not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I’m going to come into your house and clean your pool.

– Alec Baldwin

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don’t want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

– Bat for Lashes

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

– Abraham Verghese

I feel like the one insight that’s extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

– Abigail Washburn

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

– Carter G. Woodson

I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

– Catherine Zeta-Jones

Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I’ll go there.

– Nancy O’Dell

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

– George Miller

I was what they call a pool hustler. That’s absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

– George Miller

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

– Edith Sitwell

When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it’s us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.

– Palmer Luckey

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